How interesting that I was just sharing with someone earlier about Twitter and SocialOomph. I use SocialOomph, which allows me to schedule tweets, save tweets to use later, set up a welcome message, follow back, and it provides stats...and that is in the free version. My strategy when I came on was to just post quality content (in addition to my own links) consistently and let people follow me. That has worked and I have over 1600 followers today. I love SocialOomph and I can see exactly how many hits I have had on my links, which is very helpful. I quickly found out that people were very interested in products and my links are at the very top for activity, which is exactly what I want. While I don't have tracking for sales, I know that Twitter has helped me grow sales. It is impossible to have that many hits without sales. I took some time to focus on something else and let my daily posting slide, and saw a dip in sales too. So, I'm getting back on schedule. No coincidence that was the beginning of this thread. Highly recommend it. Do it daily. Mix in topics of interest along with your own stuff (I schedule 1 tweet an hour and alternate).

Thanks for the tips! I use twitter sometimes but it doesn't seem to increase my traffic much. Any suggestions on doing it the right way?

I would suggest typing into the twitter search box terms that are related to the business you promote. For example, if you are in the "make money online niche" you would type these words in and then ad people that match those terms. Add 50 people a day and send out tweets on a regular basis. Make sure the tweets are informative or inspirational and include your links in a few of them and you will get traffic. It's all about consistency.

I recently posted about YouLikeHits bit.ly/qZvNWp as I have used it for a long time and really like it - however there have recently been a lot of fake/spam accounts using it with the result that if you exchange your daily credits for followers most of those credits are being wasted by these useless followers. I still find the site very useful only at the moment I'm tending to exchange my credits for retweets instead of followers...

I have tried these kind of follower exchanges before and came to conclusion that it was simply a waste of time. Think for a minute. People who choose to follow you are there to earn credits, just like you. The more people they follow, the more credits they will earn, so the only reason they won't follow is if following you will reflect badly on their twitter profile. They will have followed so many people on these services, they are very unlikely to ever read your, or anyone elses, tweets. what, then is the point?

Twitter is usually the first place I promote a new product as it is so easy to tweet and so fast ,I am not sure why it does not seem to bring many viewers at times though..

I also post on Facebook ,Myspace,Heart it,Tumblr,and Pinterest which is getting more followers now since I started pinning other things on seperate boards as well as my designs on products and getting more traffic from there too now..

I use Twitter and have almost 500 followers, but I find most of those followers are people that want to buy their services to help you get traffic or grow your business and since I have already wasted over $1000 with other companies claiming to be able to do the same, I have not taken any of the Twitter people up on their offer. And all the traffic in the world doesn't mean anything if people are not buying, but fortunately I can say with the free methods I have been using I AM getting traffic and sales. I have an virtual online shopping mall and since it is the holiday shopping season anyone is ready to shop. And I am grateful for that, so Twitter is good for getting the word out about your business.

I recently posted about YouLikeHits bit.ly/qZvNWp as I have used it for a long time and really like it - however there have recently been a lot of fake/spam accounts using it with the result that if you exchange your daily credits for followers most of those credits are being wasted by these useless followers. I still find the site very useful only at the moment I'm tending to exchange my credits for retweets instead of followers...

thanks for this information...kind of new to the twitter gtrend but I seem to have more traffic.

Great site. I like your Twitterfeed too. Since you're using Twitter, Myspace, FaceBook and ReverbNation to promote your music you might want to check out bit.ly/qZvNWp which helps with all these and more... Good luck with the band.

One recent improvement I've made is to replace my Twitter picture from a rather nondescript sunset to a bold and colourful avatar which is a lot more memorable and eyecatching for people. Self-branding...